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There was no change There will be no change Stop Complying Start Defying In our dying democracy, those with power and the puppets...

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva with his protégé, Dilma Rousseff Photo: AP Ms Rousseff, a former ...

Each hijacked ship and its crew will bring the pirates holding it a ransom of anywhere between £1.5 and £3 million pounds Pho...

The two communities have planted record numbers of new saplings in a bid to entrench their rival claims over one of the world?s most ...

  Samal Towers, worth an estimated $70m, serves as BTA's headquarters, as well as housing the UK and US consulates, and several ...

The UK pavilion captured the imagination of the Chinese public from the beginning and around eight million visitors passed through it...

Even Barack Obama's old Senate seat in Illinois is under grave threat Photo: REUTERS Mr Obama returned to Chicago...

Hillary Clinton visits the Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia today Photo: AP Although former President Bill Cl...

  Silvio Berlusconi and Ruby, the Moroccan belly dancer Last year Veronica Lario, Mr Berlusconi's estranged wife...

Johnny Kingdom's own role in the shooting has also been a subject of intense speculation since he tipped off a local newspaper th...

George Hickenlooper: the Denver festival will now be dedicated to him Hollywood director George Hickenlooper, who won an Emmy in 199...

The device had been placed in a cardboard box and posted to the US One of the two bombs posted from Yemen last week was transported ...

The blast occurred near the independence monument in Taksim Square A suicide bomb blast in the centre o...

The agreement in Hanoi was described as "a political and strategic decision" Vietnam has agreed to help supply Japan with rare e...

There have been long lines at some polling stations for the first presidential election in 10 years Voters in Ivory Coast are casti...

Lord Carlile said technical equipment needed to be investigated to ensure it was "absolutely up to date". Home Secretary ...

Opinion polls suggest Ms Rousseff could win with a lead of 10 to 12 percentage points Brazilians are voting to choose a new president t...

MarathonMan Stefaan Engels is about to come to Athens as part of a crazy challenge to create an unbeatable world record by runn...

The story of the world's most famous marathoner may be more apocryphal than historic, but the athletic movement he inspired could be hit...

The modern Athens Marathon commemorates the run of the soldier Pheidippides from a battlefield at the site of the town of Marath...

The 22-year-old woman, named locally as Hanan al Samawi, was traced through a phone number left with a cargo company. Ali Abdullah Saleh...

Miss USA Alexandria Mills, 18, celebrates after she won the Miss World 2010 title in Sanya, on the Chinese island of Hainan The hotly...

Hundreds of actors, directors, screenwriters and other film industry workers invaded the red carpet Actr...

There is a shortage of organs for transplant Scientists have managed to produce a small-scale version of a human liver in the labora...

Mr Karzai said Afghanistan's relationship with Russia had to be based on mutual consent Afghan President Hamid Karzai has criticised ...

Rio Gallegos is mourning its most celebrated son Former Arge...

David Cameron: ''We protected the UK taxpayer" EU leaders say tough new budget rules agreed at their summit in Brussels will pr...

Rare earth metals come from China - they are vital for production of a range of electronic items China has reassured the US it has no...

The printer found in Dubai had a circuit board linked to a mobile phone card Prime Minister David Cameron says the device in a packag...

Violence between the two communities flared up in March this year Community leaders in Nigeria's Plateau State are appealing for ...

Arrest in Yemen in bomb plot; more suspects sought (AP) Experts: Passenger p...

The Battle of Marathon ( Greek : Μάχη τοῦ Μαραθῶνος , Machē tou Marathōnos ) took place in 490 BC, or 2.500 years ago, during the first Per...

Barack Obama: The oligarchs' president The director of "Inside Job" writes about Obama's depressingly rational ...

MOSCOW – Famished bears in northern Russia have resorted to digging up graves in cemeteries - and reportedly eating at least one body - afte...

US SECRETARY of State Hillary Clinton (pic) left yesterday on a two-week Asia trip to pursue what an aide called "cool-headed, construc...

A protester prepares to throw a stone towards Israeli riot police during clashes in Umm el-Fahm yesterday. Israeli police fired tear gas an...

28 Oct 10 - WAR-torn Somalia is perceived as the most corrupt country in the world War-torn states are still seen as being the mo...

A BUS carrying French tourists slammed into a car on Thursday, killing six French citizens and the car's driver, an official said. Eight...

VLADIMIR Putin, who has carved out a health nut image by wrestling with tigers or judo opponents, raised eyebrows yesterday as he was pictur...

The Inuvik Mosque after completion in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada. The small mosque arrived in the Arctic to serve a gr...

29 Oct 10 - HUNDREDS of tonnes of festering trash lying uncollected in the streets of Naples will be cleaned up "within three days...

PANAMA suspended free trade talks with Colombia after bargaining stalled ahead of a Friday deadline, even though much of the pact was comple...

Pakistani Interior Minister, Rehman Malik exchanges documents with visiting British Home Secretary, Theresa May, at a signing ceremony in I...

  Asian Muslim women chat after praying inside the women's prayer hall of the Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, Egypt. Al-Azhar is one of Cairo...